Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
Storage vendors haven’t been able to completely escape the perfect financial storm threatening the global economy, according to a pair of surveys by financial analysts. Kaushik Roy of Pacific Growth Equities and Jayson Noland and Joel Inman of R.W. Baird have released their quarterly IT industry overviews, and both surveys found signs of slowing in…
Are computing clouds just fancy roach motels, or, to ask the question bluntly: once data is uploaded to a cloud can it ever be retrieved? Or is the situation analogous to the roach motels where the critters check in, but … never check out? Top IT managers are worried about exactly this issue. Gregg Fenton,…
Staples, the world’s biggest office products supplier, is jumping into the IT sourcing market offering up security, on-site tech and data back-up services for small-to medium-sized (SMB) businesses. The move puts the $27 billion retailer shoulder to shoulderwith tech titans EMC (NYSE: EMC), HP and IBM that are battling to increase SMB market share given…
The term “Green IT” summons two flights of thought: greenback savings and back to green environmental impact. But make no mistake, the pecking order is clear: “This is about doing what is right for the business, and the benefit to the environment, that is an added bonus,” said Jody Cefola, chief marketing officer at IBM…
The Green CIO – November 13, 2006: Going green is easy and good for your company, your customer relations and the environment, writes CIO Update columnist David Thompson of Symantec. Data Center Optimization is Within Anyone’s Reach – April 16, 2008: You don’t have to be big to go green in the DC, writes CIOUpdate…
Software Project Failure: The Reasons, The Costs – When a major software project fails, the results can be devastating to an organization. This article uses economic criterion to define what it means for a project to fail and examines common traps that contribute to or accelerate project failure. Effective Project Management, ITIL and BSM –…
PALO ALTO, CALIF. — Basex chief analyst Jonathan Spira wants to make one thing clear to people who think it’s more effective to juggle multiple tasks at once: “There’s no such thing as multitasking,” Spira said. “We’re switching between tasks, but we [human beings] are not capable of multitasking.” The comments came during a recent…